Luis Arturo González López

Luis Arturo González López (born December 21, 1900 in Zacapa , † 1965 ) was Guatemalan President from July 27, 1957 to October 24, 1957 .

Life

Luis Arturo González López was a member of a latifundist family. He studied law, was a lawyer and was appointed as a judge in various cities. From 1945 to 1952 he was a member of the Supreme Court.

In January 1953 González López founded the Partido Anticomunista Demócrata Cristiano (PADC) with the support of the US Ambassador Rudolf E. Schoenfeld .

He was advisor and deputy to President Carlos Castillo Armas . As chairman of the constituent assembly, he arranged for Castillo to be named president on his birthday. Romeo Vásquez Sánchez had shot Castillo over dinner. González took office the next morning. Dwight D. Eisenhower sent his son Major John Eisenhower to Castillo's funeral in early August 1957.

On September 13, 1957, he opened the Bibliotheca Nacional building in Guatemala City . The Constitution of Guatemala required presidential elections to be held within four months of the president's death.

On September 17, 1957, the Tribunal Supremo Electoral refused to accept the candidacy of Mario Méndez Montenegro because the Partido Revolucionario did not meet the requirements of the electoral law. The Supreme Court lifted this exclusion. The TSE later refused to enroll again because the party allegedly disregarded anti-communist law.

The Movimiento Democratico Nacional (MDN), used the government apparatus to campaign for Miguel Ortiz Passarelli.

The election took place on October 20, 1957. When Passarelli received nearly twice as many votes as Idígoras, Idígoras gathered about 10,000 followers on October 21, 1957 and threatened a general strike for the next day if the fraud continued. The protesters gathered around the Palacio Nacional (official residence of the President in Parque Central ).

In addition, there were members of the Partido Revolucionario , who had been refused to elect Mario Méndez Montenegro, the brother of Julio César Méndez Montenegro . The police sprayed tear gas to disperse the crowd. González decreed a 30-day state of emergency to stop demonstrations.

On October 24, 1957 at 3:00 a.m., the army penetrated the Palacio Nacional and replaced President González López with a triumvirate of Colonel Óscar Mendoza Azurdia , Colonel Roberto Lorenzana and Colonel Gonzalo Yurrita Nova.

In the afternoon, Parliament sent a delegation to discuss a plan with US Ambassador Edward J. Sparks to replace González with Colonel Guillermo Flores Avendaño .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ University of San Diego, Elections and Events 1951-1960 ( Memento of the original from June 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ John D. Martz, Central America, The Crisis and the Challenge , Chapel Hill, THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS, 1959
3. ↑ Time , Aug. 05, 1957, Fighter's End
4. ↑ Stephen M. Streeter, Managing the Counterrevolution: The United States and Guatemala, 1954-1961 , Ohio University Press, 2000, 384 SS 66.

predecessor	Office	successor
Carlos Castillo Armas	President of Guatemala July 27, 1957–24. October 1957	triumvirate Colonel Óscar Mendoza Azurdia Colonel Roberto Lorenzana Colonel Gonzalo Yurrita Nova